July 28, 2009
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Beat the heat: email
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The Seattle area is experiencing record heat this week (~100 degrees). At work, Facilities has notified us that they're diverting HVAC resources to keep the computer labs cool and are encouraging us to find ways to reduce our heat impact.
I have contributed the following suggestion! Sending emails raises the temperature. As individual characters of an email are pushed through the Ethernet cables, they scrape the sides, which results in friction, which results in heat. (The bigger the characters, the more they drag along the sides of the cables.)
So to keep heat to a minimum, I am recommending that people:
- Send as few emails as possible.
- Keep them as short as possible.
- Use small letters.
I think that this suggestion alone will reduce cooling load significantly.
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